Racing News: December 16 Morning Report

Rita Jeptoo’s “B” Sample Will Be Analyzed This WeekThe Kenyan winner of the 2013 and 2014 Boston and Chicago Marathons produced a positive “A” urine sample for EPO in September. The test of her “B” sample will occur this week and results could be available by Friday. If it’s also positive, Jeptoo could be ordered to forfeit her marathon titles and financial winnings. Meanwhile, Athletics Kenya has suspended two other female marathoners for failed drug tests. More

Kenenisa Bekele’s Next Marathon Is Dubai in JanuaryEthiopia’s world record holder for 5000 and 10,000 meters won his marathon debut in Paris in April in 2:05:04 but was just fourth in Chicago in October. He’ll be at the Dubai Marathon on January 23, and has enlisted Italian coaching legend Renato Canova to prepare for the goal of breaking Haile Gebrselassie’s national record of 2:03:59. More

IAAF Releases 2016 Olympic TimetableThe Rio de Janeiro Olympics, to maximize worldwide exposure, will have track and field finals in every morning session, including the women’s 10,000 on the first day, August 12, and the men’s and women’s marathons and men’s and women’s 3000-meter steeplechases later in the week. More

Shalane Flanagan’s Mother Thrived in a Different Era of RunningCheryl Bridges Treworgy is now one of track and field and road racing’s leading photographers. Her daughter is the second fastest American female marathoner ever. Treworgy, as Gary Cohen reports, was once the world record holder in the marathon. She'd come through an era when her local school board passed a resolution that she couldn’t train with the high school boys, and her pioneering athletic scholarship to college was granted under the guise of a “talented student scholarship.” More

John Treacy Says Euro Distance Runners Have Given UpIreland’s two-time World Cross Country champion also took the silver in a 1984 European sweep of the Olympic marathon medals. He told RunBlogRun that Europeans have effectively given up trying to compete with East Africans in distance running, and need to get back to the volume and intensity their countrymen manifested in the '70s and '80s. More

Relay Runner Breaks Dallas Marathon Winner’s TapeShitaye Gemechu was en route to becoming the women’s champion at the Dallas Marathon when she was overhauled by a fast-kicking 51-year-old local runner Janice Moore, who broke the finish tape just in front of her. Moore was completing a 5.7-mile anchor leg of a mixed gender relay. Moore suggested that the relay and marathon should be given separate chutes. More

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